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West Australian
15 minutes ago
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Handscomb marks milestone match with classy county ton
Former Australian Test batter Peter Handscomb has marked his 200th first-class game with a century to help put his English county side Leicestershire in control of their top-of-the-table clash with Derbyshire. The Victorian, who played 20 Tests for Australia, is captain at Leicestershire and has steered the side to the top of the County Championship's second division, with Derbyshire second. Handscomb resumed the second day's play on Wednesday on what must have been a very nervous 99 alongside Lewis Hill (132no), with the team cruising at 3-357. The Australian quickly brought up his century but was out soon afterwards for 101 (171 balls, five fours) after a 191-run stand with Hill. Hill also brought up a milestone, reaching 150 before being dismissed for 151 (310 balls, 12 fours). Leicestershire added only 41 more to their overnight score as Derbyshire's Luis Reece finished with 6-56 to bowl out the visitors for 398. When the home side batted, Rehan Ahmed took six wickets to add to his opening-day century as Leicestershire skittled Derbyshire for just 189 to establish a commanding first-innings lead of 209. Ahmed, who registered 115 with the bat on Tuesday, then emulated Reece's exploits with a career-best 6-51, including removing Derbyshire top-scorers Caleb Jewell (54) and Harry Came (56), to keep his side in control. In other action, Middlesex skipper Leus du Plooy joined teammates Max Holden and Kane Williamson in making a century before declaring on 8-625 at home to Northamptonshire. The visitors reached 4-126 at stumps, trailing by 499, after Holden and Williamson increased their respective overnight scores from 137 to 151 and 88 to 114 and Du Plooy plundered 105. At Cheltenham, Australian allrounder Chris Green and Tom Hartley starred with the bat as Lancashire assumed the upper hand against Gloucestershire. Green posted 160 from 199 balls and Hartley hit 130 off 153 deliveries in a formidable first-innings total of 557 before unbeaten pair Ben Charlesworth (104) and Joe Phillips (60) helped the hosts to 1-179 in response after captain Cameron Bancroft (2) was trapped lbw by Sir James Anderson. Ben Kellaway and Colin Ingram combined to give Glamorgan the ascendancy against Kent at Cardiff. Resuming together at the crease, Kellaway ended on 90 and Ingram hit 87 in a first-innings total of 327 before Kent replied with 1-106 in their second innings, trailing by 66. In Division One, Jack Leach claimed 6-63 as Somerset wrapped up a five-wicket win over Durham inside two days of their clash at Taunton. The visitors, who resumed on 2-5 in their second innings, were bowled out for 190, with offspinner Archie Vaughan assisting Leach with 4-85. Somerset required 86 for victory and reached the target in 19.2 overs, despite 4-39 from Durham's Callum Parkinson. Lyndon James hit an unbeaten 203 for second-placed Nottinghamshire against Hampshire. James's knock off 236 balls included 20 fours and eight sixes as the away side, who resumed on 5-241, declared on 8-578 at Southampton. Hampshire trail by 498 runs after closing on 80 without loss.
Perth Now
15 minutes ago
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- Perth Now
Handscomb marks milestone match with classy county ton
Former Australian Test batter Peter Handscomb has marked his 200th first-class game with a century to help put his English county side Leicestershire in control of their top-of-the-table clash with Derbyshire. The Victorian, who played 20 Tests for Australia, is captain at Leicestershire and has steered the side to the top of the County Championship's second division, with Derbyshire second. Handscomb resumed the second day's play on Wednesday on what must have been a very nervous 99 alongside Lewis Hill (132no), with the team cruising at 3-357. The Australian quickly brought up his century but was out soon afterwards for 101 (171 balls, five fours) after a 191-run stand with Hill. Hill also brought up a milestone, reaching 150 before being dismissed for 151 (310 balls, 12 fours). Leicestershire added only 41 more to their overnight score as Derbyshire's Luis Reece finished with 6-56 to bowl out the visitors for 398. When the home side batted, Rehan Ahmed took six wickets to add to his opening-day century as Leicestershire skittled Derbyshire for just 189 to establish a commanding first-innings lead of 209. Ahmed, who registered 115 with the bat on Tuesday, then emulated Reece's exploits with a career-best 6-51, including removing Derbyshire top-scorers Caleb Jewell (54) and Harry Came (56), to keep his side in control. In other action, Middlesex skipper Leus du Plooy joined teammates Max Holden and Kane Williamson in making a century before declaring on 8-625 at home to Northamptonshire. The visitors reached 4-126 at stumps, trailing by 499, after Holden and Williamson increased their respective overnight scores from 137 to 151 and 88 to 114 and Du Plooy plundered 105. At Cheltenham, Australian allrounder Chris Green and Tom Hartley starred with the bat as Lancashire assumed the upper hand against Gloucestershire. Green posted 160 from 199 balls and Hartley hit 130 off 153 deliveries in a formidable first-innings total of 557 before unbeaten pair Ben Charlesworth (104) and Joe Phillips (60) helped the hosts to 1-179 in response after captain Cameron Bancroft (2) was trapped lbw by Sir James Anderson. Ben Kellaway and Colin Ingram combined to give Glamorgan the ascendancy against Kent at Cardiff. Resuming together at the crease, Kellaway ended on 90 and Ingram hit 87 in a first-innings total of 327 before Kent replied with 1-106 in their second innings, trailing by 66. In Division One, Jack Leach claimed 6-63 as Somerset wrapped up a five-wicket win over Durham inside two days of their clash at Taunton. The visitors, who resumed on 2-5 in their second innings, were bowled out for 190, with offspinner Archie Vaughan assisting Leach with 4-85. Somerset required 86 for victory and reached the target in 19.2 overs, despite 4-39 from Durham's Callum Parkinson. Lyndon James hit an unbeaten 203 for second-placed Nottinghamshire against Hampshire. James's knock off 236 balls included 20 fours and eight sixes as the away side, who resumed on 5-241, declared on 8-578 at Southampton. Hampshire trail by 498 runs after closing on 80 without loss.
The Independent
an hour ago
- The Independent
Moment police handcuff bleary-eyed drug dealers sleeping in bed
Police bodycam captured the moment a pair of sleeping drugs dealers were placed in handcuffs while still in bed as officers executed a dawn raid. An investigation into a drugs line operating between London and Leicestershire led officers to serve a warrant on a property in Leicester on 5 October 2022, where crack cocaine with a street value of over £10,000 was found. Bodycam footage shows Miguel Figueiredo-Mendes and Jean Paul Ekombolo, both 28, being handcuffed after police breached the flat door. Figueiredo-Mendes, of Orange Grove in Chigwell, was sentenced to six years and three months after pleading guilty to conspiracy to supply cocaine and heroin, while Ekombolo, of Mast Street in Barking, was sentenced to four years imprisonment after pleading guilty to conspiracy to supply cocaine.
BBC News
5 hours ago
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- BBC News
Ahmed stars to put Foxes in control against Derbys
Rothesay County Championship Division Two, Central Co-op County Ground, Derby (day two)Leicestershire 398: Hill 151, Ahmed 115, Handscomb 101; Reece 6-56, Chappell 2-49Derbyshire 189: Came 56, Jewell 54; Ahmed 6-51 Leics 6pts, Derbys 2ptsMatch scorecard England all-rounder Rehan Ahmed claimed career-best figures as Leicestershire took control of the County Championship match against Derbyshire on a record breaking day at the Central Co-op County followed his hundred on day one by taking 6-51 from 20 overs with his leg spin to bowl the hosts out for 189 in reply to the Division Two leaders' Hill scored 151 and Peter Handscomb 101 but the visitors collapsed spectacularly to Luis Reece who took 5-12 in seven overs to finish with total is the lowest completed innings to include three centuries in the history of county cricket, beating 422 by Essex against Glamorgan at Swansea in they resumed on 357-3, their sights would have been set on 500-plus but they managed only 41 more as Reece ran through completed his hundred in the second over of the morning but then played at one from Zak Chappell that moved away to take the outside rest of the session belonged to Reece whose relentless disciplined line was too much for the Holland edged a drive to be caught by Brooke Guest standing up and after Hill on drove Reece for four to reach 150, he pushed at the next ball and was caught Kimber, having survived a hard head high chance to short cover, then drove an easier catch to the same fielder two balls later before Reece struck twice in an Green was beaten by swing and former Derbyshire bowler Logan van Beek was also snared at cover, the fourth Leicestershire player to be out without Liam Trevaskis was bowled by Alex Thomson in the next over, the visitors had lost their last seven wickets for 38 runs. Derbyshire lost David Lloyd in the first over of their reply when he shouldered arms to Holland but Caleb Jewell and Harry Came then dug in until Ahmed struck either side of pair batted sensibly, both passing 50, to add 112 from 215 balls but Came then dragged a pull into the hands of Madsen went in the leg-spinner's next over, caught at slip playing a big drive, and Ahmed claimed Jewell's wicket immediately after the Australian was trapped lbw going back in his crease and Aneurin Donald was caught behind cutting after a brief counter turned one past Reece's defensive push before bowling Chappell to become the first Leicestershire player to score a hundred and take six wickets in an innings since Phil Simmons against Durham in slide continued with Guest edging a drive at Trevaskis to slip before Thomson was run out and Kimber removed Jack Morley in the final over to leave Derbyshire trailing by 209. Report supplied by ECB Reporters' Network, supported by Rothesay
BBC News
11 hours ago
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- BBC News
The Donington Park links of Monster of Rock Ozzy Osbourne
Black Sabbath's founding frontman Ozzy Osbourne was a true monster of rock - so it's no surprise his legend is inextricably linked with the spiritual home of metal, Donington singer, who died in the UK at the age of 76, was no stranger to Leicestershire having played at venues including a show at Il Rondo with Black Sabbath as far back as also played De Montfort Hall and Leicester Polytechnic through the 1980s as a solo artist after he was fired from Black Donington Park he appeared at Monsters of Rock in 1984, 1986 and in 1996, when he co-headlined the final festival with Kiss. Although there had been talk of expanding the festival to two days for 1997, the event was cancelled after organisers struggled to recruit 1997 was a good year for Osbourne - it was the year he rejoined Black by 2002, his Ozzfest shows returned him to Leicestershire for their 2002 event. It was a hit, and the following year Download held its first festival at the Castle Donington both with Black Sabbath and as a solo artist, went on to play the festival in 2005, in 2012 and for a final time in 2016. It was his final visit to Donington was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease - a struggle he was vocal about but which began to limit his his death came just weeks after the band played a farewell gig in his home city of Birmingham.
